I think the overarching lesson I’ve taken from her, Woolsey and others is that rogue nations will use cutout groups like al Qaeda, Hezbollah, etc., to do their bidding—and of course they would gladly give such groups nukes if they had them, not just passports and safe transit and bases of operation. This is the reality we face when contemplating a Saddam or Kim Jong Il or the mullahs in Iran. But until this is the starting point for the discussion here in the US, well, I don’t think we’ll get very far toward the goal of winning. In fact, given the state of the electoral process right now, I would think we’re about to start losing this war—again.
As Doctor Mylroie has stated in the video “Bin Laden provided the terrorism and the radical following while Saddam provided the intelligence.”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/mylroie.html
quote from Doctor Mylroie PBS Gunning For Saddam
“Is your opinion that bin Laden basically was the front man for Saddam Hussein?
Bin Laden and Saddam are working together; they’re both in it together. But between Iraqi intelligence and Al Qaeda, the far more important party is Iraqi intelligence. Bin Laden also worked with Sudanese intelligence. That came out in the trial for the 1998 embassy bombing. Bin Laden works with the Taliban. He’s not as important as we think. He does not work independently of a state, of a government. But because we have not seen the links, or perhaps not wanted to see the links between Osama bin Laden and various governments, we ourselves have attributed to him capabilities that he alone does not possess.”
I agree. And the WOT won’t be won until there is regime change in Iran.